We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Taylor Ann Drew. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Taylor Ann below.

Alright, Taylor Ann thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with a story that highlights an important way in which your brand diverges from the industry standard.

Direct Primary Care (DPC) and traditional health insurance are different models of healthcare provision, and each has its own characteristics and benefits. Here are some key differences:

1. **Payment Structure**:

– **Direct Primary Care**: In a DPC model, patients pay their healthcare providers directly in the form of a periodic (usually monthly) fee. This fee covers a wide range of primary care services provided by the provider

– **Traditional Insurance**: With traditional insurance, patients typically pay premiums to an insurance company and are often also responsible for deductibles, copays, and coinsurance for care received. The insurance company then pays the healthcare provider based on the specific services provided.

2. **Relationship with Provider**:

– **Direct Primary Care**: DPC often allows for more personalized care, with potentially longer appointments and easier access to the healthcare provider. This can include things like direct communication via phone or email, same or next-day appointments, and extended visits.

– **Traditional Insurance**: In a traditional insurance model, providers often see a large number of patients and appointments may be brief. Same-day appointments can be harder to come by, and there may be limited direct communication with the provider outside of scheduled appointments.

3. **Scope of Coverage**:

– **Direct Primary Care**: DPC agreements typically include primary care services such as preventive care, routine checkups, and management of chronic diseases. However, they do not cover hospitalizations, specialist visits, or other more advanced care. Patients might still need a high-deductible health insurance plan for emergencies and specialist care.

– **Traditional Insurance**: Traditional insurance plans usually cover a wider range of services, including primary care, but also specialist care, hospitalization, and sometimes prescription drugs. The exact coverage varies greatly depending on the plan.

4. **Billing and Administration**:

– **Direct Primary Care**: DPC models often have less administrative overhead because they avoid dealing with insurance billing. This can result in cost and time savings for the healthcare provider.

– **Traditional Insurance**: Providers accepting traditional insurance must deal with insurance billing, which can be complex and time-consuming. This can increase the cost of providing care.

In short, DPC is a model that can potentially provide more personalized and accessible primary care, while traditional health insurance provides a broader coverage but might be associated with more administrative burden and less personalized care. The choice between the two depends on individual healthcare needs, financial circumstances, and personal preferences.

Taylor Ann , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Taylor Ann Drew has a passion for her patients and creating innovative, accessible healthcare. As the co-owner and founder of Aquarian Clinic, she has a wealth of experience as a Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner. Her foundation was laid while Taylor was attending the University of Florida securing a Bachelor of Arts in Health Sciences and shortly thereafter attending and graduating from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing with her MSN, soon thereafter becoming board certified in Adult and Geriatric Specialist.

Taylor Ann cultivated her passion for patients at the young age of 17 when she started working in healthcare, working alongside her mom, an RN, in a local surgery office. Taylor Ann accepted a position in Reno, NV, caring for the underserved at Community Health Alliance (CHA). There she developed and implemented treatment protocols to create better provider/patient relationships. As the Medical Director and Chief Nursing Officer, she was responsible for opening the Center for Complex Care within the CHA ecosystem. In 2017 she returned to Tallahassee to be close to family and started working at a local hospital as a first assist in surgery for Vascular and Plastics.

Taylor managed post-operative patients in the hospital and the clinic and assisted in treating patients in outpatient, urgent and ER settings. In 2018, she moved “in house” as a hospitalist overseeing and managing admission of patients from the Emergency Department as well as direct admissions from outside facilities. When the pandemic arrived in Tallahassee, Taylor became the COVID-19 Admissions Specialist. Like so many other things in our lives, the pandemic helped Taylor focus and dream about innovating patient care. She identified the obvious need for patients to receive more personal, more direct primary, preventative and urgent care for better health outcomes.

As a result, Aquarian Clinic was founded by Taylor Ann and her partner, co-founder and CEO John Kenny. Taylor is able to provide greater care, with even greater passion, producing incredible results. Most importantly she has developed systems which make Aquarian Clinic not just easy to use for the member/patient but allows the primary care provider to do just that; provide the personalized care that patients deserve without the hassle of involving third party billers.

Have you ever had to pivot?

While working in the hospital during COVID I realized that I was not happy in my career. I was making good money and had a great job however I did not feel fulfilled. I decided to leave my job, now making no money, in hopes to open my business and help others in a different way. I took the largest leap of faith and now, over 2 years later, I have the most wonderful career, am happy and have a great work life balance.

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

I met my business partner while renting my first business space. I opened CaliFlo Yoga Collective prior to Aquarian Clinic. He was my landlord. Unfortunately the yoga studio opened in the midst of COVID therefore I was unable to pay rent. I decided to start seeing patients in the studio and the clinic grew from there! He was impressed with the number of patients that enrolled and decided to partner with me as co-owner of Aquarian Clinic.

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